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For more than 42 years, Hillsborough County Head Start/Early Head Start has helped prepare more than 60,000 low-income children for school by providing:
- early childhood and prenatal education
- family, medical, dental, mental health and social services
- 2/3 of USDA required daily nutritional needs.
Hillsborough County Head Start/Early Head Start Division is one of the largest grantees for Head Start in the southeastern United States, serving 3,071 children and families throughout the county. |
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Hillsborough County Head Start/Early Head Start:
- Currently directly serves 1,312 infants, toddlers, and preschool age children and their families.
- Directly operates 18 centers throughout the county, including sites in Plant City, Tampa, Seffner, Bealsville, and Ruskin.
- Contracts to serve additional infants, toddlers, and children in 5 centers.
- Operates a full-day, full-year Monday – Friday program open 253 days per year.
- Has one delegate agency: Hillsborough County Public Schools which serve an additional 1,759 preschool age children through a part-day/part-year program in elementary schools.
- Considers parents an essential part of program planning and decision making. A policy council made up of parents and community volunteers plays a large part in the program’s governance.
- Always explores new funding opportunities. Most recently awarded grant awards include a $900,000 Head Start Innovations and Improvements grant, a $1.1 million dollar Head Start Healthy Marriages
Grant and Hillsborough County CDBG Funds totaling $399,000.
- The program is expanding! Starting in January 2010, the program will add 151 Head Start slots and 252 Early Head Start slots.
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